Oh, and Tim Lincecum

This week has been a ridiculous jumble of nerves and headaches and fever dreams and sea legs and indigestion and anticipation.

This morning I was blessed with the news of Jose Guillen not being on the Postseason roster. Brian Sabean gets a lot of crap, and a lot of it is pretty deserved. He resigned Bengie this year when a lot of people wanted to see Posey start. Posey wasn't ready to catch, so they had him...play 1st in AAA in the meantime...and then he got called up to get some on-the-job experience...and played 1 game at catcher while spending most of his time at...1st. Later Sabean stated that Posey was learning catcher by observing from 1st base. Yeah.

But he realized Bengie was done and admitted his mistake and traded him knowing that Bochy was never going to start Posey at catcher as long as Bengie was around.

We gave Guillen a shot. Bochy gave him lots of shots. He started many games. He looked really bad in RF. He had one really great game full of ribeyes. And he kept starting. And Sabean didn't put him on the roster, and because of that, Cody Ross got the start tonight, and was easily the most productive offensive Giant tonight. Timely walk, timely hit and THEE RBI of the game. Guillen would've had two double plays and an uncomfortable hobble to the outfield.

And Lincecum. Tim Lincecum pitched maybe the greatest game I have ever seen him pitch. 14 Strikeouts. Without looking it up I believe that would be his 2010 high. When Jason Heyward came up in the 9th I was a tiny bit nervous. Posey had a triple and a (ahem) completely 100% safe stolen base, and somehow Heyward was going to show him up in grander fashion. And then Lincecum. Timmy pitched to every part of the zone up down left right and finally got Heyward swinging at a wicked sinker right in the dirt...it was a thing of beauty. He made Heyward look like a rookie. A rookie! And let's face it, Heyward really hasn't looked much like a rookie all year.

Tim, your performance tonight makes me even more upset that I had to listen to every single pundit and expert and video blogger talk about how "done" you were in August. You were awful that month, and everybody panicked. And then September happened and I was there live for your first start and WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN AUGUST, TIM!?!? You had your mother and I worried sick and then you show up September 1st and struck out 9 and looked like our son again. Who was that man?

This is my first taste of October Lincecum, and by golly is it delicious.

Only 10 more wins to go.